Wailing for Basra

Wailing for Basra

I hear you brothers. I hear you sisters. of Basra. I hear your wailing criesover your children dying of cancer,over your dead rivers, over your charcoal                                                                    skies that send the sun scurrying away         ...
Tlaltecuhtli

Tlaltecuhtli

Rent apart by two serpents to create the world, her body became the earth and sky, hair, the trees and flowers; springs and fountains flowed from her eyes – humanity expelled with a grimace from her haunches: Only the blood of men could appease her for what she...
Walking Up Scafell Pike with My Father

Walking Up Scafell Pike with My Father

After walking a few yards you breathe like someone who has slipped across the border. I am ahead, you are far behind. There are no rest stops on this rocky path to the summit, no hedgerows to distract our lack of common interests or silences broken up with ums and...
A BRIEF NOTIFICATION CALLED NOW

A BRIEF NOTIFICATION CALLED NOW

All is so diagnosed…   those always the first sat down & not healthy in a tiny waiting room, waiting for a doctor they’re lucky to wait for.   This is just our days…   a little boy who loves books, (his mother reading them aloud)...
THREE / THALATHA

THREE / THALATHA

On SAWAYAMA, Rina is emblazoned in gold, eyes staring         straight forward and bronzed nails tapping her lips andshe sings about excess, she is everything, she is paradise. When I was fourteen        I went to a high school play for a date and watched Midasturn...